42 Barrow Street
West Village | built 1851
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The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.
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- 1851
Mortgages from Timothy Whittemore let two builders put up the Barrow Street row that includes No. 42
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The 1851 row at 38-48 Barrow Street was built by the mason Smith Woodruff with the carpenter Benjamin Demarest, whose family had long been active in developing the Village. Neither man needed capital of his own: the houses were financed by mortgages from Timothy Whittemore, whose family owned a great deal of Village property. The Landmarks Preservation Commission describes the row as a record of how builders of the period developed land.
“Associated with the mason Smith Woodruff ... was the carpenter Benjamin Demarest ... The erection of these houses was made possible by mortgages from Whittemore to the builders.”
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- Then & Now photos: 42 Barrow StreetVillage Preservation: Greenwich Village Then & Now
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